QotD: The Will of the Universe
Listening to: Corduroy - Pearl Jam
There is a group of Buddhist monks in Malaysia with a bit of an ant problem. So far they haven’t been able to get rid of the painful little buggers. The problem is made more complex by the fact that they can’t kill the ants… but there might be a way around that:
They cannot encourage anyone to harm the ants, but the chief monk says that if someone turns up unbidden and deals with them without the monks’ involvement then that is the will of the universe.
Priceless!
March 13th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I was talking with a Tibetan lama once - and got essentially the same story on eating meat. It’s OK if you didn’t have anything to do with killing the animal (including organizing someone else to do it for you)….ergo, meat from the supermarket was OK. I didn’t feel compelled to point out how the market (or which we are all a part) was collectively organizing butchery’s…that would have been bad karma!